New Delhi, April 7 -- A Delhi court has convicted a man for forging an official letter purportedly issued by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a BJP ticket for himself in the 2019 Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-elections.

In a detailed judgment delivered on March 30, the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari at Rouse Avenue Court held accused Shivaji Yadav guilty of offences of forgery and using a forged document as genuine under Sections 465 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code.

The case revolved around a letter dated June 10, 2019, allegedly written by the UP Chief Minister to the Prime Minister recommending that Shivaji Yadav be allotted a BJP ticket from the Lucknow...